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...secure the votes to rule alone or to hammer out a coalition with other mainstream parties, Jaroslaw invited two fringe political groupings - the nationalist Self-Defense Party, or Samoobrona, and the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families - to join the government in exchange for Cabinet posts. Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper, a pig farmer who has been convicted of slander and assault, became Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister, while League of Polish Families leader Roman Giertych, the former head of an ultraright nationalist youth group with a reputation for anti-Semitism and homophobia, was anointed Education Minister...
Prime Minister Jaroslaw said he thought the responsibility of governing would help the two political parties mature; instead they taught him a lesson in the perils of coalition building. Within months Lepper was publicly calling Jaroslaw a "boor." (Kaczynski responded that Lepper was a "brawler.") Lepper subsequently weathered charges of trading jobs for sex, but was eventually sacked in July of this year over allegations of corruption. (Lepper denies all charges against him.) The Interior Minister, a Kaczynski ally, then lost his job in the face of allegations that he had hindered a corruption investigation into Lepper's Agriculture Ministry...
...alcoholic" civil service, on the former communist "establishment" and on the central bank. This fragrant brew of right-wing populist causes is likely to become more pungent this week, when talks to form a coalition government could result in an important post - Deputy Prime Minister - for Andrzej Lepper. Leader of the Self-Defense party, Lepper is a radical populist who has been convicted of assault (the conviction was erased when he entered parliament) and is under investigation for allegedly libelous attacks on his opponents. He made his name in violent street demonstrations in the mid-1990s and has blasted free...
...freedom and a source of our innovation and prosperity. Riches flow to the person who builds a better mousetrap--or computer mouse. Yet a grocery shopper blankly staring at hundreds of varieties of toothpaste might reasonably conclude that there can be too much of a good thing. Mark Lepper, a psychology professor at Stanford, and Sheena Iyengar, an associate professor of management at Columbia, illustrated this point with a simple study. In a grocery store, they set up tasting booths that offered either six or 24 types of jam. Shoppers found the wider selection more enticing: 60% who passed...
...Surprise Poland's Democratic Left Alliance and its coalition partner the Labor Union took 216 seats in parliament, 15 short of an overall majority. Significant blocks of seats went to parties opposed to Poland's accession to the European Union. Self-Defense, the peasants' party led by populist Andrzej Lepper, gained 52 seats and the right-wing League of Polish Families won 38. Solidarity, the loose coalition that had led the previous government, failed to win any seats. ISRAEL Anniversary Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza observed a three-minute silence to mark the first anniversary of the intifadeh...